D-Day

Considering he rallied the US population into one solidified nation, brought the US out of a serious depression (the stockmarket crash of 1929 sent the US into a depression during the 1930's), defeated the most powerful enemies in the world at that time, and out-produced all of the world's nations in EVERYTHING; he made little to no mistakes worthy of note.

Actually, he made a mistake...In 1942, he signed an executive order that sent 110,000 Japanese Americans to interment camps in remote desert areas because U.S. officials were paranoid about the fact that these people were spies and secretly scheming with Japan (for a possible attack).

The morality presented was that dropping the bomb would end the war and save more lives because the U.S. would not have to invade and fight through the cities there to subdue it. == The standard answer (and arguably most true) is that using the Atomic Bomb stopped the Japanese from fighting a protracted war for Japan. While a horrific thing to be sure the loss of life encountered by the dropping of 2 bombs was probably less than what would have been experienced in an island to island, to the last man war of attrition. Hindsight is always 20/20 and people can say all day that we shouldn't have done it, but the reality is that we did it and it can't be taken back. The other thing to consider here is that we warned Japan repeatedly that we were in possession of a weapon that would change the very face of war as we knew it, and that we were prepared to use it. The Japanese told the US to get bent, basically, and even after we dropped the first bomb they refused to surrender. I guess when you get down to brass tacks there really is nothing moral about war. It is a terrible thing to undertake and I think that the decision to use atomic weapons was the best option we had at the time. ==

Approximately 1,500 Canadian soldiers died in the War of 1812. Some of the soldiers died in action while most of the died from disease.

Yes, they both refer to the invasion of Normandy by the allies, although D-Day truly means the day of an attack.

William the Duke of Normandy landed at Hastings at 1066

Victory in Europe in World War II is called V-E Day and was on 8 May 1945,

after Germany surrendered unconditionally to Great Britain, Soviet Union (Russia) and United States.

Russia and some other countries celebrate Victory Day on May 9.

It forced the Germans to fight on TWO fronts. In the east against the Russian army, and in the west against the Allies. Eventually, the Germans were forced back into their own territory, where they were finally defeated, by the two Allied armies that surrounded the German army.It opened yet another front on Germany and liberated the European counties. The three fronts where Russian to the east, Italian to the south and France to the West. It also stopped the Red army of Russia to take over the whole of Germany and possibly some of the low counties as well. If this happened the world we live in now would be a different place.

No single list of the 70,000 who served on Iwo Jima exists.

Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith commanded the landing.

Sgt. Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon Block, PFC Franklin Sousley, PFC Rene Gagnon, PFC Ira Hayes and Navy Corpsman PM2 John Bradley are all known to have been there since Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press is known to have taken their picture at the top of Mount Suribachi.

Twenty-two Marines can be readily named from the list of Medal of Honor winners.

John Basilone who won the Medal of Honor at Guadalcanal died on Iwo Jima,

"D-Day" was the day of the beginning of the Allied inavasion of Europe for the purpose of driving out the Nazis. It was the largest amphibious assault ever. While the overwhelming scope of that operation has given the term "D-Day" that special significance, it originally was, and still is, rather mundane military terminology for a target day in planning a campaign, in the same way the term "H-Hour" is sometimes used. The terminology makes it possible to do the planning without reference to actual calendar dates, partly for reasons of operational security, and partly because that daate might not be finally chosen until late in the process. So in the scheduling of events, it would look like a countdown: D-Day-minus-10, D-Day-minus-9, and so on as preparations are made, up until the day the operation began, D-Day, followed by D-Day-plus-1, D-Day-plus-2, which would deal in goals for the operation and the ongoing support.

As far as i know the code name was confidential or was not present but it is often called the Salerno D-Day

Not many, relative to other Allied losses, especially American. According to D-Day.org: "Most of the 1,100 officers and men of the Royal Australian Volunteer Naval Reserve taking part in Operation Neptune on D-Day served aboard British ships or as commanders of several landing flotillas and motor torpedo boats. Approximately 11,000 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officers and men served with Royal Air Force (RAF) or RAAF squadrons for every phase of D-Day. Australia also provided 15 percent of the 1136 aircraft committed by Bomber Command on D-Day." "Australia, with the great bulk of its forces fighting Japan in the south-west Pacific, took a relatively small part in the operation, but the invasion force included up to about 3,000 Australians. About a dozen Australian soldiers were attached to British army formations, learning the ropes in preparation for amphibious operations in the Pacific later in the war. Some 500 Australian sailors served in dozens of Royal Navy warships, from battleships and corvettes down to motor torpedo boats and landing craft. Several Australians commanded flotillas of tank-landing ships, while others piloted landing craft carrying British and Canadian infantry onto the beaches. Australia's main contribution was in the air. Between 2,000 and 2,500 Australian airmen served in dozens of RAF and ten RAAF squadrons of all kinds. Australian aircrew served in transport and glider-towing squadrons which carried airborne troops, fighter-bombers and fighters operating directly over the beach-head, and many in heavy bomber squadrons which dropped thousands of tons of bombs in support of the landings. Coastal Command squadrons operated far from the beaches of Normandy, protecting the Channel crossings from German naval forces. Fourteen Australians were killed on D-Day (two RAN and 12 RAAF)." http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/remembering1942/dday/index.asp

Among others the opening of the Second Front, the Allied invasion of France, D Day June 6th 1944.

Normandy coast.

Normandy is an area of northern France and was named after the early Normans who lived there. It lies east of the Cotentin Peninsula, and the major port of Cherbourg, one of the objectives of the invasion. The landing sites were on the coast that surrounded the major city of Caen.

the Romans would slaughter their enemies at a distance. shields wouldn't be thick enough to absorb the shots and the roman empire would live on

VE Day stands for Victory in Europe Day.

There is no universal, official end to the war:

German forces surrendered in Italy on April 29 1945, and in Western Europe on May 7, 1945. On the Eastern Front, Germany surrendered to the Soviets on May 8, 1945. A German Army Group Centre resisted in Prague until May 11, 1945. On July 11, 1945, the Allied leaders met in Potsdam, Germany. They confirmed earlier agreements about Germany.

On August 15, 1945 Japan surrendered, with the surrender documents finally signed aboard the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945, ending the war.

President Truman officially declared an end to hostilities by Presidential Proclamation on December 31, 1946 (Proc. no. 2714, 61 Stat. 1048)

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D-Day was so important because it was the day that the Allied nations grabber their first strong foothold on Europe. Thus, it was the beginning of the end of the war because from the beach of Normanday (the beach captured because of D-Day) the push into France and eventually Germany comenced.

Answer It's difficult to answer a question like that. Allies lost so many people in an attempt to gain a beachhead in France that it's difficult to say that we "won" on that day. But the events of D-Day were necessary to winning the war in Europe. The Allies were able to invade the beaches that day and establish a place for troops and equipment to come ashore. With the forces that came, the allies were able to defeat the Axis powers and eventually destroy Hitler.

It doesn't stand for anything. It was just put in there for no particular reason.

wow, really? DOOMS DAY. Nn that's not what it means... It means Demolition. Demolition Day. Stop putting up information you know is false.

Total allied casualties (killed, wounded, missing, or captured) are estimated at approximately 10,000.

These comprised:

United States-6,603, of which 2,499 fatal.

United Kingdom-2,700.

Canada-1,074, of which 359 fatal.

Germany:

Estimated between 4,000 and 9,000 casualties

Source: Wikipedia Iwo Jima d-day approx 3000us soldiers died

I believe it was called "Operation Overlord." "D-Day" is a generic term used in planning any military action. It makes it easy to plan and move the start time/date without rewriting each individual date, e.g. "d-day plus one."

The code name of the whole operation was OVERLORD; of the naval part of the operation, NEPTUNE.

The effect of D-Day on America was the view that huge sacrifices had been made to rid the world of Nazi tyranny. The mood was solemn but proud, but also seemingly acknowledging that sons were fighting and laying down their lives for other people to be liberated from the Nazi jackboot. two quotes that comes to mind is in recognition of all allied soldiers who died in WW2. "They gave their today for our tommorow" "They died so that we might live" The public was largely unquestioning of the war, it was viewed as a biblical battle of Good vs Evil.

A major event in World War Two that led to the final defeat of the Third Reich was the Battle of the Bulge.

Using mainly tanks supported by ground troops, this was a "last gasp" plan to turn the war outcome around.

It was a deliberate bursting through of the encircling Allied troops, well thought out counter-attack, that ultimately failed.